Hi all

I'm not sure if it's only me (in fact I'm 120% sure it's not) but Steam download speed is incredibly low.

I tried posting on Steam forum without luck. The thing is It barely reaches 500 KB/s. Usually it goes somewhere around 250-300 KB/s and sometimes, by magic, it goes to 1MB/s.

It took me 3 days of non stop downloading to get Batman Arkham City and (brace yourselves) 3 WEEKS to get Shogun 2.
Right now I am tying to download Portal 2 and it goes with 200 KB/s so I'll have to wait all night to get it.

I tried changing the settings, the servers without luck.
The lowest speed I got on Origin was 8 MB/s and something similar for UPlay.

As for my Internet speed: speedtest.net & pingtest.net
And this is not one of the good days.

Any ideas & tips? I'm tired of waiting days to get a game on Steam.

Sorry about the links. It seams I can't make 'em Clicky.

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Max I've had got is 71,5 MB/s I had a screenshot of it but deleted it recently.

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I downloaded portal 2 the other day and i was 3-6 mb/s

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i had never problems with the downloadspeed, so i can't help you. normaly i get 6MB/s.

12 years ago
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I download with speed of 5mb/s
no problem here.

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same here. Nothing to complain about.

12 years ago
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Count yourself lucky, I have a 800k internet connection.
It took me weeks to install Battlefield 3.

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I just opened Origin, and it's downloading Aftermath. 3.8 GB Update :P

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I'm getting 6-12MB/s.

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probably a problem with your ISP or bandwidth .. my download speed 80-140 mbit/sec

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OMG i can only LOL and cry about your problem :D dont you think that someone in the world, for example, me. have to DL ALWAYS with speeds from 0 to 300KB/s ! i can see above 300KB/s speed like 1 or 2 times in month for 2 sec :D although my max connection speed should be 3MB/s ( and no, i cant change my ISP ).
so please be patient :P

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LOL.

If you put it this way, 2 billion people have food and water problems. I'm not saying that my issue is something I can't live with. But this doesn't mean I shouldn't find a fix.

Remember, the main reason to climb on a mountain is because it's there :D

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ok :D i understand what you mean, but as my english is not that good, then i will replay only that, im glad that u apologize to all with low Internet speed :) and i like your mountin saying.

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I'm downloading from Steam with 4-8 mb/s every time and becouse of that or something else whenever Steam is Updating or downloading something, my computer is slowing down :D ..

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ya know i would say upgrade your internet but looking from your pictures thats not the case :O i get 2.3mbs on a 200gb/month plan and i'm on my wifi connection. perhaps its your actual computer thats the problem?

my friend and his brother have 2 separate laptops my friend gets a better download speed than his brother on a wifi network. not sure why.

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I have 2 systems (one of them is really old and I don't actually use it) + 1 laptop and it's the same.
I also have a USB wireless modem, from another provider and it's even slower (not that this is a surprise in this case).
Besides, I have this problem since I signed up on Steam.

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hmm it might just be the server your downloading the games off of, i haven't tested other servers for downloaded and have sticked to mine the clostest valve server to my location. so not sure.

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Now I feel bad :(
I feel like I should apologize to all with low Internet speed :(

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Check the health of your hard drive.

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I monitor my HDD permanently. Besides, this is only happening with Steam.

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I'm always downloading on my max, which is ~850kbps and has been 220kbps until like a week ago.

And I always needed like 1 week to download games xD

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I used to have 1,2mb/s now I have 530kb/s ....

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I average 1.2 MB/s

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it's incredibly fast.

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mines always atleast 500 kb/s, most recently, it has been spiking extremely high, it spiked to 4.2 mb/s for about 10 minutes.

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